PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 09

Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of the Paris collections for A/W 2009. SHOWstudio fashion director Alex Fury will upload show reports throughout the day, accompanied by images captured by veteran catwalk photographer Chris Moore to illustrate the shows and showcase a selection of SHOWstudio's favourite designers through comprehensive image galleries.

• Credits Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2009
• Reports Last updated 27 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Gareth Pugh] [Paris Fashion Week] [Yves Saint Laurent] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Hussein Chalayan] [Givenchy] [Autumn/Winter 2009] [Rick Owens]

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BLACK & WHITE

Nick Knight/Ruth Hogben

Incorporating the cream of this season's monochromatic fashions, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's latest film was captured on set during Knight's 'Black and White' shoot for British Vogue. Set to a pulsating soundtrack, witness model Anja Rubik bring to life striking clothing and accessories courtesy of designers including Martin Margiela, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor & Rolf and Florian Ladstaetter.

• Film Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Credits Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Contributors Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 26 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Christian Dior] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Ruth Hogben] [Vogue] [Viktor & Rolf] [Anja Rubik] [Pringle] [Florian Ladstaetter]

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LET THERE BE LIGHT

Nick Knight/Lily Donaldson/Jonathan Kaye

Allowing unprecedented insight into Nick Knight’s latest photo shoot, SHOWstudio shed light on every nitty-gritty detail as he works with model-of-the-moment Lily Donaldson and a stellar backstage team to creates the editorial images for February 2009’s V Magazine.

• Gallery: Shoot Last updated 21 Jan 2009
• Film Last updated 21 Jan 2009
• Contributors Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Gallery Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Highlights Last updated 7 Nov 2008

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Balenciaga] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Azzedine Alaïa] [Pierre Hardy] [Jil Sander]

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MAKE UP YOUR MIND

Nick Knight/Jonathan Kaye/Ruth Hogben

We play mind games with thisdecidedly Surreal fashion excursion, starring Maison Martin Margiela's Spring 2009 "Wig-Coat" in perpetual, oddly seductive motion.

• Project Blog Last updated 11 Dec 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS Last updated 10 Dec 2008
• Film Last updated 25 Nov 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Ruth Hogben]

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SPRING/SUMMER 2009

Alexander Fury

What, when, why, wear: Spring/Summer 2009 in handy microcosm from our place at the London and Paris shows.

• Contributors Last updated 9 Oct 2008
• SPRING/SUMMER 2009: Project Blog Last updated 9 Oct 2008
• Season Report Last updated 9 Oct 2008

Related Projects: [Gareth Pugh] [London Fashion Week] [Giles] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Marios Schwab] [Christopher Kane] [Louise Goldin] [Jeremy Scott]

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DESIGNER PURIKURA

Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura- we have invited a Tokyo-based team to interpret the Autumn/Winter collections using nothing more than a souped-up Photo-Me booth. See how photographer Kenji Hirasawa, stylist Takumi Iwata, illustrators Kai Ohta and Yumiko Suzuki envisage model Ayako Hayamizu in looks by Givenchy, Martin Margiela, Balenciaga, Comme des Garcons, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Christian Dior, Chanel, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent in their own inimitable way in five, fun film shorts that detail the amazing construction of the resultant 'fashion spreads'.

• Collections Report Last updated 16 Oct 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 12 Oct 2007
• Contributors Last updated 12 Oct 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Balenciaga] [Christian Dior] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Chanel] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Comme des Garcons] [Prada] [Givenchy] [Christopher Kane] [Photograhy] [Kenji Hirasawa] [Takumi Iwata] [Kai Ohta] [Yumiko Suzuki] [Yasuhiro Tsuchiya] [Ayako Ha]

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ICE CREAM

Nick Knight

Caught on film during Nick Knight’s photo shoot for the 49th issue of Visionaire's 'Decades' collaboration back in June 2006, Ice Cream features London model Lily Donaldson wearing pieces from the Maison Martin Margiela Archive, posing with some of the season’s favourite ephemera – including a rhapsody of metallic balloons and a flurry of dry ice. Watch the movie, edited by Ruth Hogben, to see how fashion’s current preoccupations with hard luminosity and liquescence are brought to life in another of our moving fashion montages and see the gallery for the prints that appeared in the magazine last summer.

• Project Blog Last updated 9 Mar 2007
• Contributors Last updated 9 Mar 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Ruth Hogben] [Katy Barker]

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HAUTE COUTURE S/S 2007

Penny Martin

For the first time in four years, the SHOWstudio Picture Phone journeyed to Paris Haute Couture Week, to document the unconstrained aesthetic ambition, extraordinary luxury and fastidious workmanship of the most exclusive end of the fashion industry. Sent directly from the opulent venues, taxis en route to the shows and after les defilés, Penny Martin captured the magic of the most outrageously imaginative and decadent of fashion weeks.

• Project Blog Last updated 18 Jan 2007
• Contributors Last updated 18 Jan 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Penny Martin] [Christian Dior] [Chanel] [John Galliano] [Boudicca] [Stephen Jones] [Martin Margiela] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy] [Spring/Summer 07] [Benjamin Seroussi] [Armani] [Jean Paul Gaultier] [Christian Lacroix] [Elie Saab]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: Martin Margiela

Martin Margiela

Many took up Maison Martin Margiela's challenge to complete what he had left unfinished. Since late June 2004, SHOWstudio viewers across the world have been downloading his simple, shift-dress pattern and adding to it to express their individual vision. Once made up, the more creatively ambitious have interpreted their designs in fashion stories, surprising and varied. To showcase this two-way fashion dialogue, a selection of the best were posted in our Atelier Gallery.

• Atelier Gallery Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Shoot Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Download Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Contributors Last updated 6 Aug 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Photoshoot] [Downloadable] [Martin Margiela] [Garment Pattern]

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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA A/W 2004-05

Nigel Bennett, Martin Margiela

An exclusive preview of Nigel Bennett's film showcase of the feted design group's A/W '04 womenswear collection. Presented in four parts, the film comprised conversations with five women, from which the themes of the main line collection and its intriguing Trompe L'Oeil prints were drawn.

• Images Last updated 7 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 7 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Martin Margiela]

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FLOATING SIGNS

Maison Martin Margiela

As the acclaimed fashion house of Martin Margiela prepared to open its doors for the first time in London, photographer Valerie Von Stahl Stromberg took the SHOWstudio picture phone to document the shop's arrival; hard to miss in the form of a 'sandwich-board campaign' on the cities streets.

• Movie Last updated 1 Apr 2004
• Interview Last updated 1 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 1 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Martin Margiela]

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THE BELGIANS

Photographer John François Carly selected seven Belgian designers - Véronique Branquinho, Jean Paul Knott, Véronique Leroy, Haider Ackerman, Martin Margiela, AF Vandevorst and Bruno Pieters - as the focus of seven fashion films; each featuring garments from their respective A/W '03 Collections. Accompanying interviews exposed the interlinking strands that bind 'the Belgians' together, making them the current cerebral force of fashion.

• Designers Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Martin Margiela] [Jean-Francois Carly] [Raf Simons]

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